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Computing Machinery and Intelligence
by Alan M. Turing · 1950 · 1 reading card · public domain
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Computing Machinery and Intelligence · 1950
One process, one agent, evaluations before autonomy, a budget, a trace and an owner.
The state in September 2026: computer-use agents climbed from about 15% to about 66% on OSWorld-class benchmarks in a year (Stanford AI Index 2026); the protocols moved under neutral governance (MCP and A2A at the Linux Foundation); "skills" packaged as instructions became an open format; the workers are small models. Gartner (June 2025) expects over 40% of agentic projects to be cancelled by the end of 2027, on cost, unclear ROI and weak risk controls; the MIT NANDA report (August 2025) finds 95% of GenAI pilots with no measurable profit effect, the cause in organisation, not in the model. What to do next Monday: one process, one agent, evaluations before autonomy, a budget, a trace, an owner. Turing's sentence is the right posture: do not forecast; ship the next thing that needs doing and measure it.
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”